[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [General histories](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general) › [Muntakhab al-tawārīkh](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh) › [Muntakhabu-t-tawarikh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig) › 22.1.1 # Muntakhab al-tawarikh 22.1.1 Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 22.1.1 - **Language:** English ### [22.1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.22.1.1) Called by the title of "Yamin-i-Amir-al-Muminin" (Right hand of the Commander of the Faithful.) In the year 607 H, ascended the imperial throne of Dehli; and the reason of the name Iyaltimish is that, his birth occurred on the night of an eclipse of the moon, and the Turks call a child born under these circumstances Iyaltimish. His father was the chief of many of the tribes of Turkestan. His kinsmen under pretence of taking him for a walk took Iyaltimish into a garden and sold him like Joseph to a merchant, from there he happened to be taken to Bokhara, and thence in the time of Sultan Muhammad Sam to Ghaznin; and in these days Sultan Qutbu-d-Din after the conquest of Nahrwalah and the taking of Gujrat had gone to Ghaznin, and since without permission of Sultan Muhammad Sam no one could purchase Iyaltimish he asked permission from the Sultan to sell him. Sultan Muhammad Sam said that since he had given orders that no one there should buy that slave they were to take him to Dehli and sell him there. - [Previous: 21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.21) - [Next: 22.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.22.1.2) - [Up: 22.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.22.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.22.1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.22.1.1) · Pramāṇa